The Guidehouse Transportation research team is back to discuss BMW’s big South Carolina electric vehicle investment announcement, the potential impacts of Euro 7 emissions regulations on the European trucking industry, ICAO’s carbon neutral aviation strategy, Shell backing away from consumer hydrogen distribution in the UK and a retrenchment in the US micromobility and delivery bot sector.
On this edition of the Guidehouse Transportation Insights podcast, Sagie Evbanata discusses 7-Eleven’s experiments with automated deliveries in California and South Korea. Christian Albertson talks about United’s first passenger revenue flight that utilizes 100% sustainable aviation fuel. Ryan Citron delves into Kawasaki’s move into electric motorcycles. Scott Shepard tells us about Shell’s new partnership with Nio for battery swapping and Sam Abuelsamid describes what GM and Ford are trying to do to make themselves more resilient against future semiconductor supply disruptions.
Welcome to the first episode of the Transportation Insights podcast from the research analyst team at Guidehouse Insights. During the course of our research we track relevant news in our coverage areas and every two weeks we gather to discuss some of the top stories. Scott Shepard, Ryan Citron, Sagie Evbenata, Christian Albertson and Sam Abuelsamid cover the emerging technologies in transportation and mobility including electrification, micromobility, automated driving, and aviation. Subscribe in your podcast listening app of choice to get every episode.
This week we discuss developments in sustainable aviation fuel, drones attacking power stations, BP and Piaggio getting into scooters with swappable batteries for India, the Baidu Moon robotaxi, the Toyota bz4X and Waymo going into Manhattan.
